When scientists at the Royal Observatory Greenwich began analyzing data from the STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) Spacecraft, they knew it wasn’t going to be an easy task. The craft, which uses two near-identical satellites to reveal solar storms in 3D, has already transmitted over 100,000 images of solar activity…almost 25 terabytes of data! It didn’t take [...]
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Chasing Solar Storms on a Wing and a Game
April 19th, 2012 
Mike Martoccia 
Posted in Gamification 
Tags: crowdwork, Foldit, google image labeler, research, science, SETI, solar storms, STEREO 
3 Comments »Awesome/Awkward Merit Badges
April 19th, 2012 GabeZ From the ever-hilarious site Pleated Jeans – a bit of badge levity. This time, awkward merit badges. Can you work some of these into your next gamified system? How many have you earned already today? Hat tip to Michael Archuleta.
Gamification Roundup – April 16, 2012
April 16th, 2012 Ivan Kuo This week on the Gamification Roundup: Aetna is giving away their Mindbloom wellness game, a 3D Printing platform gets gamified, Tony Vetrice covers what makes games addicting, and a RFID sensor game incentivizes workers to take the stairs. Check out the full roundup after the jump.
Posted in Gamification Tags: 3D Printing, 3D Systems Incorporated, Aetna, Floord, Flow, MindBloom, My Robot Nation, RFID, Summer Like no Other, Tony Vetrice No Comments »
Hungering for Blood in The Hunger Games
April 13th, 2012 Justin Schier by Justin Schier, Chief Creative Officer, Dopamine Inc. Now that just about everybody has seen or read The Hunger Games, it’s time to take a look at just what makes the successful movie and book series tick, in light of what we know about gamification. It’s a futuristic heroine’s lonely struggle to master both a [...]
Posted in Gamification, Media Tags: game dynamics, game mechanics, Gamification, history, movies, Politics 1 Comment »
Live Gamification TV Show – Mondays at 1pm Eastern
April 13th, 2012 GabeZ We’re launching an exciting new feature: a weekly interactive TV show called The Gamification Revolution. The first episode will premiere Monday April 16 at 1pm Eastern (10 am Pacific/1800 UTC) featuring Nadya Direkova – UX/Game Designer at Google, Top Woman in Gamification and GSummit speaker. RSVP now and visit gamification.co/live on Monday to watch and [...]
Posted in Gamification, Media Tags: Gamification, gamification revolution, gsummit, Nadya direkova, tv, webcast 2 Comments »BigDoor’s New Gamified Rewards Program Features an Analytics Dashboard
April 12th, 2012 Staff BigDoor has begun implementing a new analytics feature which encourages greater user engagement, with a simplified implementation process. The new platform will offer end users incentives for engaging with their websites and help publishers understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like loyalty, engagement, viral distribution of content, and revenue in order to gauge the effectiveness of their incentives and actually [...]
How We Play vs Who We Are
April 11th, 2012 GabeZ Growing up, like most kids I was an avid player. From video games to cops and robbers, cardboard forts (oh how I loved it when we bought new appliances!) and the occasional sport, play was an integral part of my childhood. As with most adults, play has become a much smaller part of my daily [...]
Posted in Gamification, GSummit Tags: Andrea kuszewski, behavior change, design, Gamification, gsummit, James Gardner, Jeff ma, Jon Radoff, Nadya direkova, nicole lazzaro, Nir Eyal, richard Bartle No Comments »
Gamification Roundup – April 9, 2012
April 9th, 2012 Ivan Kuo This week on the Gamification Roundup, we got news filled with possibilities. NextJump provides an leisurely gameplay platform akin to Draw Something, GDC Online is making a gamification summit in Austin, Bunchball writes an article about the work ethic of millenials, International scientists create an epidemic game to research disease outbreak models, and Bluewolf and Bunchball partner up to [...]
Posted in Gamification Tags: Bluewolf, bunchball, GDC, Millenials, NextPeer, Outbreak, research No Comments »
NewsiT Brings Gamification to Citizen Journalism
April 6th, 2012 Staff Armed with a smartphone, anyone can be a reporter. This is the idea behind NewsiT, a mobile ‘crowd-reporting’ platform that uses gamification to make reporting the news a collaborative, social, fun and rewarding experience. Founded by experienced journalist Melinda Wittstock, who has worked for the Guardian, the Observer, ABC News, National Public Radio, and MSNBC, NewsiT is all [...]
LevelUp and Perkville Gamify Real World Consumer Exploration and Loyalty
April 3rd, 2012 Eric Bruenner What if there was a way to take the guesswork out of becoming a regular? What if you knew exactly how many visits it took to get a comped meal, to skip the line, to never need another reservation? In a place like Perkville, you do. The app, which still seems to be in it’s [...]
